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Re: white-on-black or black-on-white?



On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 08:53:27AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> *default* is the definition of mutt's color table, not xterm's, and
> mutt prevails.

I don't know where mutt gets its ideas of default colours from, and I
don't mind what the defaults are, but the point is this: if you start
it up without defining any of the colours, and then say something like
"color markers red default" then the *whole* of mutt (not just the
markers) instantly flips from white-on-black to black-on-white.  If
you don't use the word "default" then it doesn't flip.

The question may be: if "default" means black-on-white in mutt, and the
xterm was also black-on-white before I started mutt, why does mutt start
up in white-on-black?

imc